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In Australia, regulators are proposing changes more in line with the current U.S. view.
Australia's gene technology regulator Raj Bhula recently proposed reducing regulations around CRISPR
and other gene editing techniques, noting that they would not be considered "genetic modification".
"With gene editing you don't always have to use genetic material from another organism, it is just
editing the [existing] material within the organism," Bhula told ABC Rural. "If there is no risk
case to be made when using these new technologies, in terms of impact on human health and safety
for the environment, then there is a case for deregulation.”
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